1) Set it to a the codec you'd like to master to
2) Render the timeline when your edit is locked
3) Export a master that matches the preview setup
4) Use that master in Media Encoder to export any other deliverables you need

Guys, while there is no doubt that Neat is a hog, the problem he's encountering is that he's re-rendering it while exporting. The way I mentioned, he renders it one time, and not during the export, which is when all system resources are encoding to another format and rendering Neat at the same time.

Definitely not Jeff... He has to render at least once, that's a given... But, if he also renders every time he needs to spit out a different deliverable, he's not only rendering more than once, he's doing it at the time Premiere's resources are all involved with multitasking while simultaneously encoding to a new format

In the Premiere Sequence Settings most go wrong because they forget to set the "Video Previews" setting - it's even more important than setting the "Editing Mode," because the Video Preview that is set automatically when you select Editing Mode is invariably just wrong

[Will Chamberlin]"I'll also try a run without neatvideo, this one is 3 mins, the others are part of a conference and up to an hour per sequence, no chance I'm waiting for that to encode if it's this slow!"

Remember Will, it's not the encode that's slowing you down with Neat, it's the render, which you've been doing while simultaneously encoding. Just rendering the entire timeline with Neat will not be fast, but it won;t be even close to what you were doing before.

Once rendered, exporting at the same exact specs will go very fast... And, taking that master into AME and spitting out a deliverable will also go fast.

This ALL works because every step is optimized... Before you were de-optimizing at every step.

Even then Jeff, it's an efficient workflow that I think every editor should adopt, as reinventing the wheel every time opens the door to all kinds of things. How many of us have gone back to that archived project we just know is all ready to to go for whatever last minute client request we get at 5:30pm on Friday, only to find something has changed or gone missing?

Exporting a master of every project, and keeping them in all one place (okay, with a backup, at least two places), is simply one of those things we should all think of as "best practices."